By Steve Holland and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he was not happy with Iran and wants to make a deal with Tehran but warned that “sometimes you have to” use military force. Trump, talking to reporters as he left the White House on a trip…
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A far-right agitator caused outrage by testifying before Idaho’s House Business Committee this week wearing an offensive brownface costume. David Pettinger, 49, arrived to discuss a bill concerning unauthorized workers in the state and the prospect of introducing an E-Verify program while wearing brown makeup, sunglasses, a wig, a beard, and handcuffs dangling from his…
A standoff between one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent artificial intelligence companies and the United States military came to a head this week, with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei refusing to bend to Pentagon pressure over how its AI technology can be used in national security operations, essentially for AI-guided weapons imn war. Anthropic CEO Dario…
Morning opening: Russia, Ukraine agree on temporary ceasefire to repair lines to Zaporizhzhia plant Jakub Krupa A local ceasefire around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in southeastern Ukraine has been agreed, with the help of the International Atomic Energy Agency, to allow for necessary repairs of the backup power lines to the plant. The IAEA has…
South Korea will soon no longer be one of the few countries where Google Maps doesn’t work properly, after its security-conscious government reversed a two-decade stance to approve the export of high-precision map data to overseas servers. The approval was made “on the condition that strict security requirements are met,” the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure…
Pakistan will not compromise on peace and territorial integrity, said its President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday after the country launched what it described were retaliatory strikes against Afghanistan, killing over 130 Taliban fighters. A Pakistani army tank stands at the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman on February 27, following overnight cross-border fighting between the two…
A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi armed group told its fighters to prepare for the scenario of a long war in neighbouring Iran should the United States launch strikes. US and Iranian negotiators met for a third round of talks on Thursday, with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi telling state TV that the talks “made very good…
Rock Hill Schools voted this week to name the welcome center at Northwestern High School after Samuel Foster, a 93-year-old educator who was the first Black principal of a fully integrated high school in South Carolina. Foster began his tenure when the York County school first opened in 1971. The naming of the welcome center…
Briefing reporters in New York, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said any strike against civilians anywhere – or any civilian buildings or other infrastructure is “unacceptable and unjustifiable.” “Between yesterday and the early hours of today, an overnight large-scale drone and missile attack across Ukraine and frontline hostilities resulted in dozens of residential buildings damaged in…